Five Families / Selwyn Raab (0312300948, $39.95
hc, Available)
“…excellent history of the New York
Mafia…Five Families is the finest Mafia history we’re
likely to see for a good long time.” –
The New York Times Book Review
People magazine will
be running a review for Five Families tentatively set for the October 5 issue.
The Devil’s Feather / Minette Walters
(1405050985, $34.95 hc, October)
The Devil’s Feather was featured as the “Book of the Month” in Red magazine:
“A new novel by crime writer par excellence ….is
always an event. This time her tense psychological thriller is set
against the backdrop of brutal conflict in Sierra Leone.”
The Diviners / Rick Moody (0316085391, $34.95 hc,
Available)
“The cast is huge and colourful, and the
summing-up of a confused era is reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen’s
The Corrections.”
– Vancouver Sun
“Like Philip Roth before him, the American
writer Rick Moody has shown that you can go a long way on sheer
energy…his writing transports the reader with sheer propulsive
force.”
– Toronto Star
This Saturday, the Calgary
Herald will be reviewing The Diviners.
In Style Parties (1932994114, $37.95 hc, October)
In Style Parties will
be mentioned in the editor’s letter in the upcoming October issue
of In Style magazine.
There will also be a mention in the following issue (November).
Bait and Swith/ Barbara Ehrenreich (0805076069,
$29.95 hc, Available)
There was a full-page feature interview with
Barbara Ehrenreich in The Sunday Star (Toronto Star) on Sunday, September 11, as well as a lengthy review
in the Books section. In the interview, a special feature on
unemployment, Ehrenreich expands on her passion for investigative work.
“If Michael Moore had taken on this project
he might have picketed company headquarters or handed out his
résumé as a flyer or something, but I didn’t want
to step that far our of the participant-observer role….In my
country, 20 per cent of the work force works at poverty-level
wages,” she says, harkening back to Nickel
and Dimed and the investigative work
she has done on poverty before and since. “To me that’s a
headline that should be a perennial headline.”
Time was Soft There / Jeremy Mercer (0312347391,
$31.95 hc, November)
Jeremy will be doing a cross-Canada tour to
promote Time Was Soft There. See below for dates and cities:
Nov 12-14 Toronto
Nov 21-22 Winnipeg
Nov 23-24 Regina/Saskatoon
Nov 25-26 Calgary
Nov 26-27 Edmonton
Nov 29-Dec 1 Vancouver
Dec 16-23 Ottawa
